Paul lindemann



(No Model.)

P. LINDEMANN.

APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SWEET '8. N0. 508,955. Patented Nov. 21, 1893 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL LINDEMANN, OF LEIPSIC-GO'HLIS, GERMANY.

.APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SWEETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,955, dated November 21,1893. Application filed May 1, 1893- $erial No. 472,531. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

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' This invention relates to an apparatus employed for the manufacture of sweets which are coated or covered with chocolate or other substance. Such sweets up to the present time have usually been formed by dipping each piece separately into and removing it from. the liquid coating or covering substance and then laying it upon a sheet of paper for the covering to dry or become hard. This method was exceedingly-tedious and wasted a great amount of time.

The object of the present invention is to efiect a saving in time employed in the manufacture of such sweets, and as a consequence to render their production much cheaper. The apparatus by which these ends may be achieved is illustrated by the accompanying drawings reference to which is hereinafter made. 7

Figure 1 illustratesin plan the general arrangement ofnthe constituent parts of the apparatus. Fig. 2 shows a section of the apparatus taken along the line a: a: Fig. 1. Fig. 2 and all the following figures are drawn to a larger scale than is Fig. 1. Figs. 3 to 12 illustrate different parts of the apparatus with their modifications and the devices by which they can be reversed, in different positions. As illustrated by the drawings the apparatus consists of a rectangular frame a, carrying upon opposite ends a series of arms or cranks b pivoted at .c as shown in Fig. 2. Each of these cranks orarms is connected to the one opposite to it by a series of light wires or rods e (Figs. 2, 3, and 7) so that a number of hinged trays are formed extend ing across the frame of the machine. The

pivot-s c are preferably secured in place by small nuts (1, Fig. 3. The hinged trays may or they may be formed of the net work or trellis work illustrated by Figs. 8 to 12 or of equivalent forms. A further modification as illustrated by Fig. 6 consists in substituting for the parallel rods 6 a single rod 6' carrying transverse pins or rods e v A'rotary motion is imparted to the trans- Verse trays to provide for the displacement of the covered sweets. One method of accouplishing this, as shown in Figs. 2, 4 and 5, is to provide a rod or bar g' which is attached to one of the parallel rods 6 ofeach crank 17. One of the bars 9 may be employed at each side of the apparatus and eachwill be furnished with a handle h. As shown by Figs. 4 and 5 the. bar 9 limits the movements of the*trays to an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees.

In the modification illustrated by Fig. 7 the rods 9 are attached to the shafts 0 outside the frame a. the shafts being suitably cranked. By this arrangement a complete circular motion may be imparted to the trays.

The sweets which are to be coated with chocolate or other substance are laid in rows upon the lattice 0r perforated trays. The frame is then lifted by the handles 2' and is dipped horizontally into a vessel containing the coating or covering liquid. If the sweets are'only required to be coated on their lower. parts they are submerged to the required depth. Should it benecessary to completely coat or cover the sweets apiece of suitable wire netting or lattice work is laid over the top of the frame to prevent the sweets float- Zing oi the trays when theyare submerged.

The frame and the trays and the contained sweets are then withdrawn from the bath. It

is now necessary to remove'the sweets from v the trays the frame" being laid upon a sheet 0 of paper and the upper netting if used is removed. Rotary motion is imparted to the trays by the rod 9 preferably to-the' extent of one hundred and eighty degrees, the former lower faces of the trays being new at the top for the reception of a fresh lot of sweets. An

angle of forty-five degrees is however only I with the free edges of the trays and handles 10 necessary to effect the displacement of the connected to said bars for lifting them and covered sweets. tipping the trays, substantially as described. What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 5 ters Patent of the United States, is hand in presence of two witnesses.

In combination, the frame, a series of open PAUL LINDEMANN. work trays pivoted in said frame, a bar ex- Witnesses: tending across each end of the frame having MEL BORNGRAEBER,

a series of projections pivotally connected FRIEDH. LINDEMANN. 

